TC/Traffic Control does not always work
RalfJung opened this issue · comments
A user is reporting that traffic control is not working for them. I found this in the logfile:
Dez 23 19:20:44 gw4.saar.freifunk.net tunneldigger[3089]: [INFO/tunneldigger.limits] Setting downstream bandwidth limit to 40000 kbps on tunnel 331.
Dez 23 19:20:44 gw4.saar.freifunk.net tunneldigger[3089]: Error: Invalid handle.
Dez 23 19:20:44 gw4.saar.freifunk.net kernel: HTB: quantum of class 10001 is big. Consider r2q change.
The "invalid handle" is harmless, as far as I know (see #154). However, that other error about "quantum of class" is new.
Unfortunately I know basically nothing about TC on Linux -- I don't have any clue what "quantum of class" or "r2q change" mean, and maybe they have nothing to do with the problem.
https://lartc.vger.kernel.narkive.com/E9X2YxQD/warnings-with-and-without-r2q explains what that "quantum" and "r2q" value is about. Looks like when we are adding the TC class via
class add dev %s parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate %dkbit ceil %dkbit
we could add a quantum X to set this "quantum" value. However it also says that
Quantum is used when 2 classes are getting more bandwidth then the rate.
So it's only important for sharing the remaining bandwidth. In that case, each
class may send quantum bytes.
so I doubt this value is relevant for us, since we never have more than 1 class on a device.